Bart Ragon: Winner of the 2012 Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year

Bart Ragon, Associate Director for Information Technologies and Knowledge Integration at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, will receive the Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year. The Estelle Brodman Award recognizes an academic medical librarian at mid-career level who demonstrates significant achievement, the potential for leadership, and continuing excellence. Bart will be honored at the Medical Library Association’s Awards Ceremony and Luncheon at the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, on Monday, May 21, from noon to 1:30 p.m.

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